Oil Filter Concerns

[mitch9521]

Originally Posted by Calrenman

Just lurking on this thread. I have seen some Cut away oil filter videos and the inconsistency of fram shocked me, Pleating, glue and rust problems... yipes.
I use the wix, 51393XP full synthetic filter. It is larger than "stock size" with more filter surface and ads a bit of volume to the oil supply (~10-15%). $11.00 filter for a $4.000.00 engine. I will play those odds. I do use the supertech 10,000 oil from wallyworld with no problems. SAE is SAE! One the light goes on at 5,000 the oil gets changed!
I will not mess with filters or oil because cam phasers/ adjustable cams need clean oil!

I exclusively run Mobil 1 full synthetic(No dino crap) in my vehicles. Usually change the Yaris around 4-5k miles and my F150 around 3k cause it sits alot.

WIX is top notch, ive actually switched to their filters exclusively now.